producers and users: the model currently used by the OECD with respect to measuring “trust”, based on an assessment of the …

Interpersonal trust (i.e. trust in other people) is an issue of high interest to both policy-makers and researchers … seeking to understand what drives social and economic outcomes. However, for trust to usefully inform policy and analysis it … trust and other social and economic outcomes, evidence on the validity of trust from experimental data is conflicting. In …

A key policy concern in recent years has been the decline in levels of trust by citizen in public institutions. Trust …, despite its acknowledged importance, trust in public institutions is poorly understood and is not consistently measured across … OECD countries. The OECD Trust Database brings together information from a wide range of different household surveys …

This paper describes the results of an international initiative on trust (Trustlab) run in six OECD countries between … determinants of trust in others and trust in institutions, administered to representative samples of participants. The main results … are as follows: 1) Self-reported measures of trust in institutions are validated experimentally, 2) Self-reported measures …